Outcomes:
Demonstrate guitar set up, maintenance, playing position and knowledge of guitar accessories.
Demonstrate beginner guitar techniques to create and play a musical product.
Demonstrate, with teacher guidance, the use of musical notation to interpret and express musical ideas.
Examine music theory and how it is used in musical expressions/ideas/compositions.
Outcomes:
Identify and play guitar music from a variety of cultural and historical contexts.
Explore the lives and work of local, Canadian and international guitar players.
Describe the impact and role of guitar playing in personal life and identify music careers and pathways for continuing engagement in music.
Outcomes:
Listen to and describe the guitar playing of self and others.
Design, implement and evaluate, with teacher guidance, a personal practice plan.
Listen to and describe ways the guitar is used in contemporary Saskatchewan First Nations and Métis music.
Investigate the skills, techniques and attitudes necessary for successful group performances.
Outcomes:
Apply, with guidance, knowledge of guitar set up, maintenance, playing position and accessories.
Experiment with intermediate guitar techniques to create and play a musical product.
Demonstrate knowledge of musical notation in order to interpret and express musical ideas.
Experiment with music theory and how it is used in musical expressions.
Outcomes:
Describe and play guitar music from a variety of cultural and historical contexts.
Examine the work and impact of influential local, Canadian and international guitar players.
Examine the impact and role of guitar playing in personal life and investigate music careers and pathways for continuing engagement in music.
Outcomes:
Listen to and critique, with guidance, the guitar playing of self and others.
Design, implement and evaluate, with teacher and/or peer guidance, a personal practice plan.
Listen to and investigate ways the guitar is used in contemporary Saskatchewan First Nations and Métis music.
Apply, with guidance, the skills, techniques and attitudes necessary for successful group performances.
Outcomes:
Apply, independently, knowledge of guitar set up, styles of guitars, maintenance, finger positions and accessories.
Apply understanding of advanced guitar techniques to create and play a musical product.
Apply, consistently, knowledge of musical notation in order to interpret and express musical ideas.
Apply knowledge of music theory and demonstrate aural skills for musical expression.
Outcomes:
Examine and play guitar music from a variety of cultural and historical contexts.
Evaluate the work of acclaimed local, Canadian and international guitar players.
Analyze the impact and role of guitar playing in personal life and consider and plan for music careers or pathways for continuing engagement in music.
Outcomes:
Listen to and critique, independently, the guitar playing of self and others.
Design, implement and evaluate, with peer guidance or independently, a personal practice plan.
Listen to and analyze ways the guitar is used in contemporary Saskatchewan First Nations and Métis music.
Apply, independently, the skills, techniques and attitudes necessary for successful group performances.